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American Ethnography | This, upon reading The Americans

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“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed,” wrote William Burroughs, in his 1992 Painting & Guns. (Painting & Guns … oh, what a brilliant title for a book!) He continues: “An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation’. Creative viewing.”

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01/20/2009 at 6:04 am

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American Ethnography | About Us

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We aim to present the tradition and practice of ethnography to people who didn't know they could be intrigued by ethnography. The goal is to help increase the interest in how we all try to understand unfamiliar cultures. This, we think, could do the world good.

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01/20/2009 at 6:02 am

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